Reebok Class Action Settlement

This post brought to you by Reebok Settlement. All opinions are 100% mine. The Federal Trade Commission didn’t like the way Reebok advertised a line of shoes and apparel that purportedly made you backside look like awesome sauce. The FTC said it’s testing didn’t prove the claims. Reebok disagrees, but decided to settle. As a [...]

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Two Sides of the Same Coin

“I want!” is a phrase that moms hear often from their children. My Grasshopper (6yo), though, has a habit of merely implying that she wants something and then expecting me to understand. “My glass is empty,” may mean that she is done, or it may mean that she wants more. And she gets a little miffed [...]

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This One’s for the Girls…

By Arden Ott, age 16 I have a few thoughts that need to be expressed. I hope that a lot of my friends will get to read what I’m going to write, and take something away from it. I’m going to talk about girls. That’s right, those amazing, beautiful, mysterious creatures that all of us [...]

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My Aspiring Missionary

A couple of years ago, we moved from a small city out to a more rural area.  Our ward is very small, and there are few opportunities for my kids to make friends there. Knowing we would be homeschooling, I endeavored to make friends in our small town. We have managed to form a good-sized [...]

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Introduction

My name is Tracy, and I am very pleased to have been invited to participate in the Mormon Momma blog. I am 42 years old and have been a member of the Church since I was a 19-year-old college sophomore. I have been married to my eternal companion for 18 years, and we have two [...]

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Tell Us Your Favorite General Conference Moments!

This is an open thread for you to share anything you’d like about this weekend’s session of General Conference. Don’t forget to check out: Making General Conference Memorable.

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Lying For a Good Cause

In his transformational book Believing Christ, Stephen Robinson uses the “Parable of the Bicycle” to represent how the atonement works in our lives. The parable is a touching story about Robinson’s young daughter trying, unsuccessful, to save enough money for a bicycle. She saves what she can manage — which isn’t much — and her [...]

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BYU NSO – Not Your Typical Pep Rally

Alana, our third daughter, began her freshman year at Brigham Young University last week. This year we have four kids in college — all at our alma mater. In addition to our newbie, Jessica just started graduate school, Belinda is a junior, and our new and wonderful son-in-law, Chuck, is a senior. For three days [...]

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The Hardest Job in the Church

A few months ago, I was traveling to a ward conference with a couple of other ladies who serve in stake callings. I was listening with interest from the back seat as the conversation went something like this in the front: “This is the busiest calling I have ever had.” “I know! The Relief Society [...]

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Play Dates and the Innocent Child

A comment on another article got me stirred up this morning. I raised my kids before the advent of the playdate, (or maybe I was just finishing up at the birth of the playdate). I never had to deal with the social undertones that go on there. But, I recall visit teaching a woman whom [...]

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Gospel Truth Versus Cultural Perception

A recent discussion in Sunday School has turned my thoughts lately to puzzling about cultural differences and how those differences relate to (how each of us perceives) the gospel plan. Every day we become more and more a worldwide church. I don’t have all the statistics but I would venture to say that if there [...]

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New Theme Trial for Mormon Momma

A fabulously talented friend of mine, Keller Hawthorne, creates premium WordPress themes. She’s asked me to test her newest theme on one of my sites. For the next couple of weeks Mormon Momma will be sporting the Fresh Journal theme. If you have a constructive comment about the theme, please leave it here. Feedback about [...]

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Can We PLEASE Get This Straight?

I’ve been a member of the church nearly all my life and am baffled at how often incorrect doctrine and concepts are taught, certainly not intentionally, but occurring nonetheless. And it happens almost every time I attend a baptism. So can we please get one thing straight?

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My Husband Doesn’t Want Our Future Kids Raised in the Church

Brook from North Carolina writes: Hi. A little background info about myself. I have been married to a non member for two years and been with my husband for eight. While we were dating we had several discussions on the church and I just assumed Ryan one day would join. Since we’ve been married, some of his coworkers started [...]

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A Matter of Integrity– Maybe

Long story, short. I was trying out for a job at a school and it went great…right up until I pulled out of my parking spot and “rubbed bumpers” with a parked car. And not just any car. The principal’s car. Calgon, take me away.

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Why Dress Modestly?

The other day a friend  of mine, Julie Smith, blogged about the Young Women/Young Men modesty issue. It reminded me of a few past blogs here, such as Modesty Mores Than Skin Deep that touched on the issue. For ages I’ve been fighting against the notion that was beat into my head as a youth [...]

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Decisions Decisions Decisions

We all have decisions to make every day. Big ones. Little ones. Which career path to follow. What style to cut your hair. Ice cream or no ice cream, and if yes to ice cream, what flavor? Some decisions come with little or no apparant consequence, some come with huge consequences. A lot of times [...]

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What’s In a Name?

I’m not lying. Not kidding. Not exaggerating. May a lightning bolt come down from the sky this very minute if I’m even treading near untruth. There’s a girl at my local Kmart whose name is Marijuanna.

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The Streaker and the Missionary

When we lived in Indiana—waaaay back during the Cretaceous Period when my husband was in graduate school and I was a marketing rep for WordPerfect Corporation—we sublet our basement to LDS missionaries. The people before us had had an open door policy and let the missionaries just walk right through their house any old time [...]

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What would you pull a ‘Rip Van Winkle’ for?

Rip Van Winkle got so tied up in what he was doing (not sure if it was sleeping, hunting, bowling, or just traipsing through the woods) that it caused him to lose track of time and re-enter his life years later, nearly forgotten by those he loved. Certain activities can cause me to pull a [...]

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